Reports a study of consultants' critiques on the records of patients treated by house officers which indicates that they provide a convenient tool for evaluation of clinical performance by house officers and an indirect measurement of the quality of teaching and patient care within a medical training program. (JT)

Intended for parents of handicapped children in Kentucky, the two booklets consider the relationship between parent and specialists and recordkeeping. The first booklet provides information on selecting a specialist, what various specialists do, what to expect in talking with specialists in education and related services, and understanding…

Nine papers by Albert E. Trieschman, Larry K. Brendtro, and James K. Whittaker consider management of emotionally disturbed children in residential centers. Topics treated include understanding the nature of a therapeutic milieu, establishing relationship beachheads, understanding the stages of a typical temper tantrum, observing and recording…

A method of case assessment is described. Data from the checklists about client, family, primary institution, and socioeconomic environment are transferred to a summary matrix outline form and causal inferences are given visual representation by vectors between the various system components. (Author/BH)

Examines the findings of a study evaluating the practice of an adoption reunion registry in British Columbia. Suggests that active searches often result in reunions that are experienced positively by the vast majority of both adoptees and birth parents. Highlights some of the key issues that are important for consideration in the development of…

This article presents results from an outcomes-based needs assessment in an urban child welfare service district. The assessment's methodology emphasized consistent data collection from actual case records and explicitly included line staff and clients in the planning process. It was concluded that such reviews could benefit a variety of…

When 69 young adults who had been incarcerated as youth were interviewed, 26 gave histories of abuse discrepant with data from records and interviews conducted in adolescence. In clarification interviews with 11 subjects, it was found that all had been abused despite either their adolescent records or follow-up interviews being discrepant.…

Examines the Chinese Exclusion Case Files of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), which documented the influx of Chinese immigrants from 1882-1923, the time when Chinese immigration was first limited and ultimately stopped altogether. These files contain data on thousands of immigrants, documenting their experience, aspirations, and…

Several Canadian surveys revealed a need for training of health and social service personnel in long-term case management of elderly clients. Proposed curriculum content areas are understanding case management, special knowledge of older adults, environmental factors, and case management techniques. (SK)

Purpose: Decisions concerning end-of-life care depend on information contained in advance directives that are documented in residents' charts in the nursing home. The availability of that information depends on the quality of the chart and on the location of the information in the chart. No research was found that compared directives by the manner…

This study examined court records, probation records, and collection office records in four counties in Pennsylvania, which were chosen because they varied along two dimensions: (a) population size and (b) the use of specialized units for the collection of monetary sanctions. From each county, restitution-eligible cases were sampled from both 1994…

Little is known about the payoffs to apprenticeship training in the German speaking countries for the participants. OLS estimates suggest that the returns are similar to those of other types of schooling. However, there is a lot of heterogeneity in the types of apprenticeships offered, and institutional descriptions suggest that there might be an…